article.date_modify returns 'None' despite the article having a modified date

[Anacoder1]

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Describe the bug I have been trying to use the article.date_modify function to extract the modified date and time from different newspaper websites. The function returns None despite the site having a modified date. This is the case for every article URL I tried this function with.

To Reproduce

!pip3 install news-please         #ran this on Google Colab
from newsplease import NewsPlease

url1 = 'https://www.thequint.com/news/law/supreme-court-article-370-jammu-and-kashmir-reorganisation-cases-hearing-govt-affidavit-rejoinder'
article = NewsPlease.from_url(url1)
print(article.date_modify)

# prints None

Expected behavior I expected the code to return the date-time instance when the article was modified, in this case 2019-11-14 19:40:00

Log Nothing to add here. I just tried the code as shown in the To Reproduce section.

Versions (please complete the following information):

• Google Colab
• Python Version 3.6.9
• news-please Version 1.5.3
  

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• Some information on your project: Extracting modified date from newspaper articles

[fhamborg]

Can you confirm date extraction works for you on the following URL? https://www.rt.com/news/203203-ukraine-russia-troops-border (also refer to https://github.com/fhamborg/news-please/blob/master/newsplease/examples/sample.json)

[IqbalLx]

Can you confirm date extraction works for you on the following URL? https://www.rt.com/news/203203-ukraine-russia-troops-border (also refer to https://github.com/fhamborg/news-please/blob/master/newsplease/examples/sample.json)

but the sample.json also not containing date_modified ??

[IqbalLx]

Hi! I confuse when exploring the main/core code, so my solution to this problem is creating a new pipeline dedicated to altering the default date_modify. I use same concept as DateExtractor but now I am looking for dateModified in application/ld+json tag